Mail vs Leather with Hunter confusion

Post by ElhonnaDS

Hi! I'm not a super expert on WoW so here goes:

I have a belt for example that has all better stats than the one I currently is using (i.e. everything is + if I change) and the one I'm using is mail and the one I change to is leather and when I change, the stats actually goes lower and I wonder why is that? It's very confusing.

why is that? My Zygor guide also wants to change to first one so I must be missing something about Mail having more effect from its stats than leather even though it says +10 compared to +14 in agility for example.

Thank you and I did search, couldn't really find an answer to this.

Post by Entropyutd

You get a +5% bonus to your primary attribute in this case Agility which affects other attributes. Because of Mail Specialization.

Edit*When wearing mail in all slots, Equipping leather breaks that*

Post by Azrile

Once you hit lvl 50, you get an ability that gives you 5% to your primary ability if you are wearing the proper gear type ( in your case, mail) in every possible slot.

It was done a few years ago to prevent hunters like yourself from rolling need on leather gear and mail gear. ( and to prevent shaman and druids from rolling on caster cloth gear).

Despite what many will tell you, there is almost a 99.9% chance that any single item you win that is not the proper gear type will be worse for you... in other words 5% to your main stat is HUGE.

Post by marcusgrip

Thank you guys so much! I totally missed that when I turned lvl 50, so you're saying I should stick to mail as much as possible? But I only get those 5% if ALL of my gear is mail? it seems like it's affecting me anyway...

Thanks anyhow :)

Post by TKitch

What they said. 5% buff is a big deal. (And it only gets bigger as you level. When you hit 10K+ of a main stat, adding 5% of that is a lot.)

Post by AkimboYojimbo

This is the effect all of these kind folks are referring to, marcusgrip, and as you can see by the description you gain the 5% bonus while wearing -only- mail armor; any cloth or leather in any slot will cause you to lose this benefit.

Post by justvisiting

Just adding (in case it's not obvious) that Mail Specialization only applies to gear in slots which has an armour type - that is, your cloak, shirt, tabard, weapon, trinkets, necklace and rings won’t count as they have no armour type. For everything else, only wear mail.

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